Goodwill Notes

Goodwill Notes Collection - Pages 22 & 23

Goodwill Notes Collection - Pages 22 & 23

Name/Title

Goodwill Notes

Entry/Object ID

002014

Tags

William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House Association

Scope and Content

The Origin of Equality... But let us, Not, However, Forget, The Deplorable State, Of these, our nine year Patentee speculators; Who found, that speculation alone, would not support itself; at least in its Application toward, the [Political] Civilization of Wawayanda, in Old Orange County [NY] — — — Is it possible, for Speculation to Devise a scheme, or plan out, any thing more perfect, than what is tacitly implied in the ground plot, and by actual measurement, in the plan of the village of Goshen... That it may Become a County Town... With Avenues, to Have Access, to all the Oracles of Civilization .... And still Remain, Like Blanks, Without a Name, Unfilled... And yet, with the most Friendly terms, possible, With the Natures of the Soil..... is there no Relief— —Something Else must be Done.... Or what will Nine Years more of speculation, among the Patentees of Wawayanda Bring about?.... ...., ..., ..., ... However ... ... ... It might seem, Worse than Useless, For the illiterate Rustick, the Compiler and Writer of this scrawl, Who never had a twelve months schooling, Nor attentively perused a Grammer to make sense of it, as it is commonly taught in schools; For Grammer ever appeared to Him, somehow, as it Does now, Like some Arbitrary Affirmative ... ... ... imposed upon the Credulous, Having [Caprice] for its [Basis] ... ... ... as with the Learned Magicians, in the science of Philology ... ... ... With Their Creation Out of Nothing;—But a Name — And yet these very Learned Grammarians, in their Nomenclature, Admit, that Names, Can never Change, the Yssence of Nature, nor the Nature of things!!! We Therefore think it Useless, to Search [the records] any further to— —Pause and Ponder ... With Them ... ... ... — Nine years speculation — to Obtain One Object, & Yet A Blank existing in a mere Name Without the Yssentials. — — A Common Maxim, [However] With the illiterate vulgar is, That What ever is true & right in its Yssence and application, Will support itself... As Agricultural Husbandry... supports itself; in all its various Branches, as it [relates to] the Mineral, the Vegetable, & in the Animal Economy... Based upon Geology, as the Basis of That Delightful Healthful and Sublime Science, Called Anthology [as the Garden of Life] and Where, the purest, supernatural, most refined Richest, and sweetest part of the Poesy... While in a purified state of Health, is Ever to be found, in That Portion, of the Compound Flower, Denominated Female...... And Whose Purified Lymphatick, Seminal Sperm... ... ... ... may be called the Nectarine Juice of the plant, and Honey of Life ... ... ... As the [Derived] secretions from Agriculture and the Economy thereof, Will support itself... And Perpetuate itself ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Where Pathetick & mutual sensibility; Fidelity, Sympathy, & Charity Combine in One Integer ... ... [in the organism & Demi-organism of the female sex] "Link after Link" Eve's, "Chain Extends" Where Kindred souls Embrace, The purest Bliss, Which Heaven sends, Is Of the Female Race.... ... ... ... — — — Whose Action, Repose — And Reaction, is perpetual.... The Economy of Which, seemly, Keeps Up the Balance and ... Equilibrium of Existence.... perhaps the,